TY - GEN A1 - Seržant, Ilja A. A1 - Moroz, George A. T1 - Universal attractors in language evolution provide evidence for the kinds of efficiency pressures involved T2 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe N2 - Efficiency is central to understanding the communicative and cognitive underpinnings of language. However, efficiency management is a complex mechanism in which different efficiency effects-such as articulatory, processing and planning ease, mental accessibility, and informativity, online and offline efficiency effects-conspire to yield the coding of linguistic signs. While we do not yet exactly understand the interactional mechanism of these different effects, we argue that universal attractors are an important component of any dynamic theory of efficiency that would be aimed at predicting efficiency effects across languages. Attractors are defined as universal states around which language evolution revolves. Methodologically, we approach efficiency from a cross-linguistic perspective on the basis of a world-wide sample of 383 languages from 53 families, balancing all six macro-areas (Eurasia, North and South America, Australia, Africa, and Oceania). We explore the grammatical domain of verbal person-number subject indexes. We claim that there is an attractor state in this domain to which languages tend to develop and tend not to leave if they happen to comply with the attractor in their earlier stages of evolution. The attractor is characterized by different lengths for each person and number combination, structured along Zipf's predictions. Moreover, the attractor strongly prefers non-compositional, cumulative coding of person and number. On the basis of these and other properties of the attractor, we conclude that there are two domains in which efficiency pressures are most powerful: strive towards less processing and articulatory effort. The latter, however, is overridden by constant information flow. Strive towards lower lexicon complexity and memory costs are weaker efficiency pressures for this grammatical category due to its order of frequency. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 180 KW - Duration KW - Explanations KW - Redundancy KW - Pronouns KW - Usage Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-583976 SN - 1866-8380 VL - 9 IS - 180 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Kosta, Peter T1 - On the Causative/Anti-Causative Alternation as Principle of Affix Ordering in the Light of the Mirror Principle, the Lexical Integrity Principle and the Distributed Morphology T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe N2 - This contribution is organized as follows: in section 1, I propose a formulation of the Mirror Principle (MP) based on syntactic features; the examples will be taken from Causatives and Anti-Causatives that are derived by affixes (in Russian, Czech, Polish, German, English as compared to Japanese and Chichewa) by head-to-head movement. In section 2, I review some basic facts in support of a syntactic approach to Merge of Causatives and Anti-Causatives, proposing that theta roles are also syntactic Features that merge functional affixes with their stems in a well-defined way. I first try to give some external evidence in showing that Causatives and Anti-Causatives obey a principle of thematic hierarchy early postulated in generative literature by Jackendoff (1972; 43), and later reformulated in terms of argument-structure-ordering principle by Grimshaw (1990:chapter 2). Crucial for my paper is the working hypothesis that every syntactic theory which tries to capture the data not only descriptively but also explanatively should descend from three levels of syntactic representation: a-structure where the relation between predicate and its arguments (and adjuncts) takes place, thematic structure where the theta-roles are assigned to their arguments, and event structure, which decides about the aspectual distribution and division of events. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 132 KW - Anti-Causatives KW - Argument-Structure-Ordering Principle KW - Causative Alternation KW - Minimalist program KW - Unaccusatives KW - Thematic Hierarchy KW - Mirror Principle Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-398587 SN - 1866-8380 IS - 132 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Andreeva, Anna T1 - Frauenfilmdramaturgie im Russischen Kaiserreich der 1910er Jahre T2 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe N2 - Im Artikel werden von Frauen verfasste Filmdrehbücher der 1910er Jahre im Russischen Kaiserreich chronologisch untersucht. Zunächst werden die ersten Drehbuchautorinnen Makarova und Tat’jana Suchotina-Tolstaja, die am Anfang der 1910er Jahre in Koautorschaft mit den bekannten Autoren (Makarova mit den Regisseur Vladimir Gončarov; Suchotina-Tolstaja mit ihrem Vater Leo Tolstoj) arbeiteten, und ihre Filme in Betracht gezogen. Dann wird der Film Ključi sčastʹja / Schlüssel zum Glück (Vladimir Gardin, Jakov Protazanov, 1913, Russisches Kaiserreich) nach dem Roman von Anastasija Verbickaja näher behandelt. Verbickajas Film demonstrierte, dass eine Drehbuchautorin eine selbständige Autorin sein kann und diente als Impuls für die Entwicklung der Frauenfilmdramaturgie im Russischen Kaiserreich, deren Aufschwung in der zweiten Hälfte der 1910er Jahre begann, und prägte bestimmte Erwartungen von auf weiblichen Drehbüchern basierenden Filmen. Maria Kallaš, die an den Drehbüchern zu den Verfilmungen des russischen literarischen Kanons 1913 arbeitete, kritisierte Verbickajas Text als pseudofeministisch und behauptete in ihrem Essay „Ženskie kabare“ („Frauenkabarett“), dass Frauenliteratur noch „keine eigene Sprache“ habe (1916). Anna Mar begann ihre Arbeit im Kino 1914, parallel zu Verbiсkajas Nachfolgerinnen, und konzentrierte sich in ihren Filmen auf die soziale Problematik – die Stellung moderner Frauen in der Gesellschaft. Damit eröffnete Mar eine neue Entwicklungsperspektive für das weibliche Drehbuchschreiben. N2 - This article provides a chronological examination of women’s screenwriting in the 1910s in the Russian Empire. The first women screenwriters, Makarova and Tat’iana Suchotina-Tolstaia, worked in the early 1910s as co-authors with popular men writers (Makarova with the director Vladimir Goncharov and Sukhotina-Tolstaia with her father Lev Tolstoi). The film Kliuchi schast’ia / The Keys to Happiness (Vladimir Gardin, Iakov Protazanov, 1913, Russian Empire), based on Anastasiia Verbitskaia’s novel of the same title, proved that a woman screenwriter could be an independent author, influencing the development of women’s screenwriting in the Russian Empire, which took off in the second half of the 1910s, creating certain expectations for films written by women. Mariia Kallash, who worked on the screenplays for film adaptations of the Russian literary canon in 1913, criticised Verbitskaia’s text for its pseudo-feminism and claimed, in her essay “Women’s Cabaret”, that women’s literature still “did not have its own language” (1916). Anna Mar wrote for the screen in the second half of the 1910s, at the same time as Verbitskaia’s successors. In Mar’s screenplays, she focused on social problems and particularly on women’s position in modern society, suggesting a different perspective for women’s screenwriting in the Russian Empire. N2 - В настоящей статье речь пойдет о женской кинодраматургии 1910-х гг. в Российской империи. Сперва мы восстановим творческую судьбу первых сценаристок Макаровой и Татьяны Сухотиной-Толстой, которые работали в соавторстве с известными -авторами-мужчинами (Макарова – с режиссером Владимиром Гончаровым; Сухотина-Толстая – со своим отцом Львом Толстым) на рубеже 1910-х гг. Затем подробнее остановимся на фильме Ключи счастья (Владимир Гардин, Яков Протазанов, 1913, Российская империя) по одноименному роману Анастасии Вербицкой, которая считается автором сценария картины. Фильм Ключи счастья показал, что женщина может быть независимым автором, послужил толчком к развитию женской драматургии в Российской империи, подъем которой начался во второй половине 1910-х гг., и сформировал определенные ожидания от фильмов по сценариям, написанными авторами-женщинами. Мария Каллаш, автор экранизаций текстов русской литературы, раскритиковала роман Вербицкой за псевдофеминизм и в эссе «Женские кабаре» заявила, что женская литература до сих пор «не имеет своего собственного языка» (1916). Анна Мар пришла в кино в 1914 году одновременно с преемниками Вербицкой и сосредоточилась в своих фильмах на социальной проблематике, а именно – на положении современных женщин в обществе. Тем самым Мар предложила новую перспективу для развития женского киносценария. T2 - Women’s Screenwriting of the 1910s in the Russian Empire T2 - Женская кинодраматургия в Российской империи 1910-х годов T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 182 KW - Anastasija Verbickaja KW - Maria Kallaš KW - Anna Mar KW - Rovdo KW - Antalek KW - Russisches K​a​iserreich KW - frühes russländisches Kino KW - Frauenfilmdramaturgie KW - Frauenliteratur KW - Feminismus KW - Drehbuch KW - Anastasiia Verbitskaia KW - Mariia Kallash KW - Anna Mar KW - Rovdo KW - Antalek KW - Russian Empire KW - early cinema in the Russian Empire KW - women’s screenwriting KW - women’s literature KW - feminism KW - screenplays KW - scripts KW - сценарий KW - феминизм KW - женская литература KW - женская кинодраматургия KW - раннее российское кино KW - Российская империя KW - Анталек KW - Ровдо KW - Анна Мар KW - Мария Каллаш KW - Анастасия Вербицкая Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-586718 SN - 1866-8380 IS - 182 ER -